08May15

Nazi camp website hacked with child porn on WWII anniversary

Austrian interior minister calls attack on Mauthausen, where 200,000 were
killed by Third Reich, 'criminal, sick'.

The website of one the Nazis' biggest former concentration camps was
hacked with images of child pornography on Friday, the 70th anniversary of
the end of World War II in Europe, officials said.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said the hacking of the website
of Mauthausen near Linz in northern Austria was a "criminal, sick attack and
deeply abhorrent."

"Interior ministry experts are helping the private operator of the website as we
speak to get the site back up as soon as possible. At the same time an
investigation is under way," she said.

Mauthausen in Hitler's native Austria was the Nazis' only category III camp,
created for "incorrigible political enemies of the Third Reich" and incorporating
a vast network of 49 subcamps.

Some 200,000 prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union passed
through. Half of them died -- beaten, gassed, starved, shot or worked to death
in granite quarries and armaments factories.

"This wasn't a straightforward extermination camp. Its slogan was 'annihilation
through labor'," tour guide Casimir Paltinger told AFP in a recent visit ahead of
the 70th anniversary of its liberation on 5 May 1945 by US troops.

[Source: The Times of Israel, Vienna, 08May15]

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